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  • #1
    Charles M. Schulz
    “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
    Charles M. Schulz

  • #2
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien

  • #3
    Virginia Woolf
    “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

  • #4
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #5
    Andrew Solomon
    “Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason.”
    Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

  • #6
    W.C. Fields
    “I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.”
    W.C. Fields

  • #7
    Julia Child
    “The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.”
    Julia Child

  • #8
    Hippocrates
    “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”
    Hippocrates

  • #9
    Mark Twain
    “Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.”
    Mark Twain

  • #10
    “We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.”
    David Mamet, Boston Marriage

  • #11
    Calvin Trillin
    “The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.”
    Calvin Trillin

  • #12
    Julia Child
    “If you're afraid of butter, use cream.”
    Julia Child

  • #13
    Erma Bombeck
    “The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.”
    Erma Bombeck

  • #14
    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
    “All sorrows are less with bread. ”
    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

  • #15
    Mark Twain
    “I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream... I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people's tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting.”
    Mark Twain

  • #16
    “Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on hot fudge sundaes.
    It makes people overjoyed, and puts them in your debt.”
    Judith Olney

  • #17
    Christopher  Morley
    “No man is lonely while eating spaghetti:
    it requires so much attention.”
    Christopher Morley
    tags: food

  • #18
    Sophia Loren
    “Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.”
    Sophia Loren

  • #19
    Chris Bohjalian
    “Food is a gift and should be treated reverentially--romanced and ritualized and seasoned with memory.”
    Chris Bohjalian, Secrets of Eden
    tags: food



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